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Six example sentences with ceramic, each labelled with its topic.
The museum devoted a whole room to ceramic work from the region, some of it fired eight centuries ago.
Art
A ceramic pan releases eggs cleanly without the coating that flakes off cheaper nonstick after a single year.
Cooking
Engineers chose a ceramic shield for the nose cone because metal would soften long before reentry ended.
Technology
Surgeons now fit a ceramic ball in many hip replacements because it wears far more slowly than metal does.
Medicine
The station's vaulted ceiling is lined with ceramic tiles that have shrugged off a century of soot and steam.
Architecture
Archaeologists date the settlement by its ceramic fragments, since each generation of potters used a slightly different glaze.
History
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